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    1. 2 Signed by the CO. of the 36-Inf. Div., Lt.Gen.Hans Gollnick ( Kn.Cr.: 21-11-42, Oakl.: 24-8-43 ).

      Hans Gollnick (22 May 1892 – 15 February 1970) was a German general.

      Gollnick was born at Gut Gursen in the Province of Pomerania as the son of Paul Gollnick, lord of the manor of Gursen, and Elisabeth Peglow descendant from the ducal house of Pomerania.

      Gollnick entered military service on 22 March 1912, and served in World War I as a Leutnant. At the beginning of World War II, Gollnick was commander of Infanterie-Regiment 76 in the Skirmish of Krojanty. During the war, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in 1942, and promoted to General on 1 October 1943. In January 1945 he escaped to Denmark, and was a British POW from January 1946 for a month until 5 February.

      Gollnick died in Schönau am Königssee.

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